There are about 700 flavors that you can smell, but only five you can taste. A lot of times what you're perceiving as flavor has nothing to do with palette, but it's more to do with scents.
More Quotes by Grant Achatz
Food can be expressive and therefore food can be art.
Food is a necessary component to life. People can live without Renoir, Mozart, Gaudi, Beckett, but they cannot live without food.
I always knew I wanted to be a chef.
Anything that could ever prevent me from achieving a goal, I put in a box, tape it up, throw it over my shoulder. You aim for a goal and attain it. Then you look to the next one.
Most smoked salts are made with liquid smoke, which is a condensate, but really, really good smoked salt is literally smoked.
What makes the food that we do at Alinea so interesting on the outside is that we really don't let ourselves say no to an idea.